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Bill: Equal taxation = equal representation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ikradonian Faith Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2131
Description[?]:
| While citizens in Ghorva province pay as much taxes per capita as those in Mekarali province, they do not get their fair share of representatives in the National Assembly. With this bill, we wish to amend the constitution to guarantee equal representation for all. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Current: A pseudo-proportional algorithm that gives considerable advantage to smaller regions.
Proposed: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:29:03, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Neoretropostmodernist Party | To | Debating the Equal taxation = equal representation |
| Message | As I highly doubt that corporate taxes of each province would be equal, as the budget currently shows, if economy was actually working, I'm going to have to disagree. Also, what you're proposing is that the rich should have more votes than the poor, which we find rather distressing. |
| Date | 12:43:37, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Underappreciated Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Equal taxation = equal representation |
| Message | The UPI will support this measure. We believe that the rural areas of Ikradon have been systematically denied importance based on their comparitively few seats in the legislature. The Chancellor will still primarily campaign in the larger provinces like Mekarali, but smaller regions like Ghorva will not be ignored by the legislature. ---Bob Hedberg, UPI Chief Legislator and Lame Duck Premier of the DRI |
| Date | 14:11:23, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Noel's House Party | To | Debating the Equal taxation = equal representation |
| Message | In an ideal democracy, each candidate for a seat in the National Assembly represents an equal number of citizens. For this reason, more densely populated areas of the nation should have a higher number of seats per unit area than the less densely populated areas. Villagers should not be allowed to shout louder than town-dwellers purely because there is a greater distance between houses. Not wanting to appear pedantic but comparing current legislation with that proposed is like comparing apples and oranges. Any weighting algorithm should be based purely on population and NOT on region size. Ideal legislation would read : "A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to more populated regions" |
| Date | 15:27:15, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Ikradonian Faith Party | To | Debating the Equal taxation = equal representation |
| Message | We assume the NHP will support our bill then? After all, 'equal representation regardless of region population' means that villagers and town-dwellers have an equal say in parliament. |
| Date | 16:35:40, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Lyika ati Isọdọtun | To | Debating the Equal taxation = equal representation |
| Message | Umm, no. We believe that each person, not each region, should be represented equally in Parliament. OOC: This would set up our parliament like the U.S. Senate, where each state gets two representatives regardless of the population of the state. |
| Date | 16:48:37, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Ikradonian Faith Party | To | Debating the Equal taxation = equal representation |
| Message | OOC: Oooooh, I hadn't figured out that meaning yet. Woops. Might as well press on, though. |
| Date | 19:22:55, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Lyika ati Isọdọtun | To | Debating the Equal taxation = equal representation |
| Message | Oops. And where I said Parliament, I meant National Assembly. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 81 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 464 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 54 |
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